Chandelier and gas-bracket.



'PATENTED. AUG. 29, 1905.

G. W. POND.

GHANDBLIER AND GAS BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14, 1904.

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GEORGE WHITLOCK POND, OF OLEVELAND OHIO.

CHANDELIER AND GAS-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1905.

Application filed May 14,1904. Serial No. 207.969.

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WHITLOOK POND, a citizen of the United States, residin at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Chandeliers and Gas-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to chandeliers and gas-brackets, and has for its object to provide means whereby the burners may be raised or lowered or adjusted horizontally, as desired, and this object is effected in the manner and by the constructions more fully hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a chandelier provided with my improved pendants, one of which is let down or extended and the other of which is folded up. Fig. 2 is a detail in side elevation showing the catch for holding the pendant in raised or folded position. Fig. 3 is a section thereof on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The invention contemplates the use of folding pipe-sections, having suitable joints permitting the burner to be raised or lowered, as desired, without the use of rubber or similar tubing and without the necessity for a ta ble or similar support for the lamp.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the suspension-pipe of a chandelier, which pipe may be covered by a brass shell in the usual manner. At its lower end the pipe has a T-fitting for two lights or burners. The number of branches may be varied as desired, and the invention is not limited to the two shown. The fitting referred to is indicated at 7 and forms a head which carries the pendants. Each pendant is formed of sections 8 and 9, which have a swing or turning joint with the head, as at 10, and with each other, as at 11. The section 9 is extended laterally and curved to support the burner, globe, and such other parts as may be needed or desired to form the lamp. The section 8 is offset slightly, as at 8, near where it joins the head, so that when folded up it will lie parallel and close to the main pipe 6. To hold the pendants in folded or raised position gravity-catches 12 are used. Each of these consists of a plate bent to proper shape to project downwardly through a slot 13 in the brass shell or casing let, carried on the suspension-pipe. The plate 12 is pivoted at 15 to a collar 16 on the main pipe and has a branch or finger 17, which extends down through a slot 18 in the shell referred to. The other or outer end of the'plate 12 has a notch 19, with beveled edges 20 leading thereto. When a pendant is swung up, the joint 11 strikes the beveled edge and lifts the catch to enter the notch, when the catch drops and holds the same in raised position. To release either catch, a swinging piece 21 is pivoted at 22 to the collar 16 and has a chain 23 hanging down in convenient position to be reached. The piece 21 hangs through the slot 18 and between the fingers 17. By pulling the chain to one side or the other the piece 21 is caused to strike one of the fingers 17 and turn the catch-plate on its pivot, thereby lifting the catch to release the pipe from the notch. The joints at 11 permit complete rotation, so that the pendants may be turned up either way, and to hold the lamp steady when turned up spring-clips 2d are located on the section 8 near the joints 10, cohstructed and adapted to detachably engage the sections 9 when the parts are folded.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a chandelier, the combination with a supporting-pipe having a slotted shell thereon, of pendants foldable beside the same, catchplates pivoted in the shell and having notched outer ends which project through the slots into position to engage the pendants, and depending inner ends, and a swinging piece pivoted on the pipe between said inner ends and having a pull-chain connected thereto and arranged to strike and lift either catchplate. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE WHITLOOK POND.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL O. KILLAM, JOHN A. BOMMHARDT. 

